"I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity."

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Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know beyond all doubt that the dark things crowding in on me either did not exist or were not dangerous to me, and still I was afraid.

— John Steinbeck